If that red flower does not catch your eye, i don't know what will. Who can miss it? My friend Vera was so smitten she just had to take a picture of it. More popular as Passion Flower or maypop, the passiflora reminded pilgrims of yore about the passion or suffering of Christ.
Though its color and outward projecting flower parts suggest an energy so vibrant, this plant is used medicinally for an occasional sleeplessness, anxiety, nervous tension, and restlessness. The presence of this calming herb at the retreat house we went to last month could not have been more appropriate.
